Home
The Travels Of A T-Shirt In The Global Economy
An Economist Examines The Markets, Power, And Politics Of World Trade
This book is about:
- Textielindustrie,
- Internationale handel,
- Relations âeconomiques internationales,
- Libre-âechange,
- Commerce international,
- Tee-shirts,
- International trade,
- T-shirt industry,
- Free trade,
- Industrie,
- International economic relations
NPR stories about The Travels Of A T-Shirt In The Global Economy
The World in a T-Shirt
Behind Shanghai's Boom Is a Simple T-Shirt
April 27, 2005 With the expiration of apparel quotas, China is expected to dominate the world T-shirt market. Many of those T-shirts are sewn in factories in and around Shanghai, China's busiest and fastest-growing city.
The End of Quotas and Rise of China
April 27, 2005 Georgetown University economist Pietra Rivoli spent five years studying what T-shirts can teach us about the global economy and how it impacts our everyday lives, an effort culminating in the book The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy. The excerpt below, from chapter 9 of her book, discusses how the lifting of textile and clothing quotas is expected to lead to greater Chinese dominance — to the detriment of exports from other developing countries.
The World in a T-Shirt
After 200 Years, U.S. Remains King of Cotton
April 26, 2005 Much of the world's cotton comes from Texas, even though it's not a particularly great place to grow the crop. Big subsidies and heavy technology and R&D spending have helped the United States dominate the global cotton trade for two centuries.
Business
Texas Cotton: 'Farmer Profits at Every Step'
April 26, 2005 Georgetown University economist Pietra Rivoli spent five years studying T-shirts and what they can teach us about the global economy, an effort culminating in the book The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy. In this excerpt, she discusses how Texas cotton growers have managed to maximize their profits:
Business
'How Student Protests Sent a Business Professor Around the World'
April 26, 2005 This book excerpt comes from the preface of The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy, by Pietra Rivoli, copyright 2005, and is used by permission of the publisher.
Comments
Please keep your community civil. All comments must follow the NPR.org Community rules and terms of use. See also the Community FAQ.
NPR reserves the right to read on the air and/or publish on its website or in any medium now known or unknown the e-mails and letters that we receive. We may edit them for clarity or brevity and identify authors by name and location. For additional information, please consult our Terms of Use.